Yangon is introducing smart meters to control the electricity supply, monitor usage and bill customers in a single automated system. If a pilot project is successful, the potential for further ...

YANGON, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Yoma Yangon International Marathon returned to Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday morning after a five-year hiatus, the event organizer said. This year's race started and ...

At a charming Kayan restaurant overlooking Yangon’s Pazundaung Creek, the waiter uses a cleaver to crack open a clay mound. He extracts a bamboo-wrapped chicken, dripping in its own juices. It’s been ...

AS WE SIT IN YANGON peak-hour traffic, Thant Myint-U is conjuring a golden age. The eminent Burmese historian, academic and former United Nations official has devoted much of the last two years to ...

YANGON: According to IQAir's air quality measurement on the afternoon of January 26 (pic), Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capital, ranked eighth in global air pollution levels. (IQAir is a free ...

One public servant skipped work. A butcher shut up her store for the day. A noodle seller watched on his phone. They all wanted to hear what Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi had to say about ...

Yangon, in Myanmar, has lost hundreds of colonial buildings to rapid development over the past two decades. A handful of heritage hotels -- think teak mansions and grand colonial facades -- are ...